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Policing and Media : Public Relations, Simulations and Communications by Murray Lee a. Alyce McGovern is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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This book examines the relationship between police, media and the public and analyses the shifting techniques and technologies through which they communicate. In a critical discussion of contemporary and emerging modes of mediatized police work, Lee and McGovern demonstrate how the police engage with the public through a fluid and quickly expanding assemblage of communications and information technologies. __Policing and Media__ explores the rationalities that are driving police/media relations and asks; how these relationships differ (or not) from the ways they have operated historically; what new technologies are influencing and being deployed by policing organizations and police public relations professionals and why; how operational policing is shaping and being shaped by new technologies of communication; and what forms of resistance are evident to the manufacture of preferred images of police. The authors suggest that new forms of simulated and hyper real policing using platforms such as social media and reality television are increasingly positioning police organisations as media organisations, and in some cases enabling police to bypass the traditional media altogether. The

Who reads Policing and Media : Public Relations, Simulations and Communications?

Author

Murray Lee a. Alyce McGovern

Publisher

Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9780203095997

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Social Science, Political Science, Business